im happy to say after being without a computer for a week and half i now have my dream machine working again here is a list of problems mother board ide controller on 2x exchanged mobos dvd rom hdd 2x ram 4x psu 1x now my computer is working with a brand new ecs group mobo (elite) K7S5A i have never had such a fast computerin my life ps the orig mobo was a jetway so i got my money back and baught my baby K7S5A
I know how you feel. I upgraded from a duron 700 on a jetway mobo with 128 mb sdram with a tnt2 video card to tthis (see below):
My first was a P133 1GB HD. the HD crapped out so I got a 5.7GB and I first though how the hell would I fill this one up, until MP3's came . Then I went to K6II 350MHz with the same HD and I'm so wowed with the speed. I can play Quake2 decently. Now I'm on a T-bird 1.2MHz and you can really feel the difference. moving up drastically in terms of processor speed can really make feel your money's worth.
The duron 700 was an upgrade from my p100SX (sux) no math processorr and only a 2d card. But I HAD to have a computer. everyone else I knew had like 350 or 450s. I had about 200 floppies just to store things on. Not exactly the good old days.
if you wanna talk crap computers, i started on a 286 with 12mb hdd and 512kb ram...beat that... shouldnt this be in general discussion???
Didn't RAM came out on 386? BTW, I also started with a 286, no HD and two 5.25" floppy drives. I just bought a 3.5" floppy drive just to have more storage. I had just one 3.5" floppy for a year because I was not able to fill it up . prince megahit - the first cheat I ever learned
Ok, the p100SX wasn't my first computer, my first was a tandy 8086 with no hd, it did have an external 5 1/2 floppy (it was huge), sporting the green monochromatic monitor and it was missing the "R" key (This was when everyone else was sporting their new 133 with math processors).
i cant tell u how happy i am 1/ 33dx 250mb 8mbram cdrom 2mvideo 2/ 233 2x 4gig 64mdram cdrom 8mvideo 3/ 333 2x 4gig 1x 20 256ram dvdrom 8mvideo 4/ 733 1x 20gig 512ram dvdrom tnt2m64 5/ 850 1x 20gig 512ram dvdrom cdrw gf2mx400 6/my new 1
My first was a Sinclair. I try to upgrade my motherboard and CPU every year and my Graphics card at every other new chip.
As far as upgrading goes, I like what Yur Pal Mitch of Envy News says. He lieks to upgrade when he can double the power of what he is replacing. He just recently upgraded from a 1 GHz to a 2GHz.
this is all interesting but could an admin move this please? sounds like you had a rough time with putting it together
just 1 thing why does it have to be moved where talking bout hardware on cmputers and how i spent 2 weeks trying to get it to work
general part is for ne thing other then hardware overclcking networking and so on this is part of hardware and over clocking coz im not talking bout a new bike i baught im talking bout my trouble i had with my computer and how i fixed it and what machine i have now
hmm kinda but not really...i dont see you mention any problems apart from the fact that you had some...and then people started talking about their first pcs....
Hmmm...seem to have some lacking truths here.... First up: Nope. RAM has been a requirement in computing ever since the "stored program concept" became popular. Next: No such thing as a Pentium SX. All P5 architecture chips had an integrated co-processor. The 486 was the last generation of cpus not to have an integrated co-processor as standard. Finally: This is not entirely true. Although, within the same architecture, if you double the speed of the CPU, you have a theoretical doubling of machine power, overall performance does not double because there are many other limiting factors, such as memory performance, hard disk performance, graphics performance, bus performance, etc. Although CPUs follow Moore's law, other parts of the computer do not. Further, you can not compare different architectures on the basis of clock speed. This is the reason for the AMD Quantispeed naming convention, because intel are taking advantage of the fact that stupid people believe power = MHz. If you compare a variety of different CPUs available at 1GHz, we can see many interesting things, when the clock speed is the same. First of all, the most powerful single CPU available on the retail market is at 1GHz right now, the Sun UltraSPARC III. Then we can see that a 1GHz AMD Athlon is the fastest 32-bit 1GHz CPU in terms of general performance, although if you just wish to add two numbers together, it is beaten by the PIII 1GHz, due to the shorter pipeline of the PIII. Performance is a fickle thing, depending entirely on what your requirements are. Comparing different micro-architectures, even within the same ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) (For example, K7 (AMD Athlon), P6 (Intel Pentium Pro, Intel Pentium II, Intel Pentium III) and Netburst (Intel Pentium 4) are all x86 ISA, but are very different to one another) is extremely difficult to do. Comparing MIPS or MFLOPS (as Sandra can give you) is pointless, because MIPS can vary inversely with performance. Application-based benchmarks are better, but not flawless, due to optimisations which have been put in place SOLELY for improving benchmark performance.
I bow to your knowledge. I can't say I remember it as anything but an SX but you're most likely right. I was a Tandy but it did have a CD-Rom--1x, which BTW still works! AS far as the doubling on purchases, I understqand teh different architectures (though I understand a little better now, thank you) but as far as a concept for those of us that are a bit cost concious, it works for me. I couldn't afford to upgrade too often. Again, I appreciate any opportunity to learn so thank you.
